Recommended Reading

Many of the following books are not written by Catholic authors and contain views contrary to the teachings of the Church. I recommend them because of their technical information or insight into the areas of bioethics and biotechnology.

Catholic Resources

William E May, Ph.D., professor of Moral Theology at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family

Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life

James J. Walter, Chair of The Bioethics Institute at Loyola Marymount University, and Thomas A. Shannon, Professor of Religion and Social Ethics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA.

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics: A Catholic Perspective

Brian J. Gail

Fatherless and Motherless (fiction)

Other Resources

Leon Kass, M.D., former chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics

The Ethics of Human Cloning

Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics

Wesley J. Smith, lawyer, author, and anti-cloning advocate

Consumer's Guide to the Brave New World

David A. Prentice, Ph.D., senior fellow for Life Sciences for the Family Research Council

Stem Cells and Cloning

Elaine Dewar, investigative reporter

The Second Tree: Stem Cells, Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality